Corset.



G. H. GOLLBY.

- CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.16,1908.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

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MICHIGAN.

CORSET.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

Serial No. 421,331.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 16, 1908.

lower ends are at a considerable distance therefrom as shown. Also, for the purpose of permitting a ready adjustment to be effected, I preferably pivot the upper ends of the steels H to the complementary clasps, a suitable clip, as I, being secured to the clasp,

and the steel pivoted to the clip.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE I-I. CoLLnY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to The stiffened sections are of such rigidity the accompanying drawings. that merely an adjustment of their lower The invention relates generally to corsets, ends is essential in order to lessen the disand consists primarily in a novel constructance or space between the members. Any tion of a garment of this character wherein means may be employed for effecting this by suitable adjustment as hereinafter set adjustment, as for instance a strap, as forth the abdominal portion of the garment (Fig. 1), which may be stitched to one of may be contracted to a greater or less exthe sections, as B, at the lower end of the tent, so as to repress the abdomen, thereby stiffening member, and a suitable hook, as K, producing the flat front effect at present in upon the complementary stiffening member vogue. adapted to engage suitable eyelets, as a, in

The invention further consists in the pethe strap; or, if desired, tapes, as b 0, may culiar construction, arrangement and combibe stitched to the garment sections at the nation of the various parts, and in certain lower ends of the stiffening members and the details of construction as will be more fully adjustment effected by tying the tapes in hereinafter set forth. different positions as shown.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a view in hat I claim as my invention is, front elevation of the lower portion of my 1. In a corset, the combination with the improved corset; and Fig. 2 is a similar view front members or sections and the clasp showing theparts in their adjusted position. members connected to the meeting portions of the members throughout their length of a stiffening member for each section pivoted at its upper end in proximity to the clasp and extending normally in angular relation thereto downwardly along the abdominal portion of the garment, and means at the lower ends of the stiffening members for varying the distance between said members.

2. In a corset, the combination with the front members or sections and the clasp members connected to the meeting portions of the members throughout their length of a stiffening member for each section connected at its upper end to the clasp and extending normally in angular relation thereto downwardly along the abdominal portion of the garment, and means-at the lower ends of the stiffening membersfor varying the distance between said members and for holding the members in adjusted position.

3. In a corset, the combination with the front sections and clasp members connected A represents the corset, B and C the complementary front sections or members thereof, and D and E the usual clasp members of any preferred construction.

For varying the width of the abdominal portion of the garment I provide complementary stiffened sections, as indicated by the reference-letters F and G, each section, extending longitudinally along its respective corset member over the abdominal portion thereof, and further provide means for effecting a relative adjustment between the sections whereby they may be brought nearer together, as indicated in Fig. 2, with the resulting repression of the abdomen.

The sections are preferably formed by stitching in each front portion of the corset a steel or other stiffening member, as H (Fig. 2), and these steels are preferably arranged in angular relation to the clasp members, as indicated in Fig. 1, their upper ends lying in proximity to the clasps, while the to the front meeting edges of the sections for a substantial dist ance from the bottom of said sections upward, of a stiffening member for each section 5 directly to a part extending normally in angular thereto downwardly pivoted at its upper end carried by the clasp and relation along the abdominal portion of the garment, and means adjacent the lower ends of the stiffening members for nee between said members. 1

in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses GEORGE ooLLEYL CHA LES W. Mosns, THOS. W. PARKER. 

